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Show II, uu jfj WHENTHELETTERS j And now comes China, to bear testimony testi-mony against the Germans. Gerard, In one of his articles on his ( three years in "Berlin, refers to a de-K de-K sire on the part of many prominent Germans to avoid a warfare which I would cause their country to be brand- ed as an outlaw nation, i;' Well, the branding has been com-1 com-1 pleted. The scarB from the searing will remain long years after the war. t Gathered around a table last even-L even-L lng were a party of Ogdenltes who I 1 have been close students of the world I calamity. Conversation was opened I by one of the men stating that his I brother in France had sent a descrlp-tion descrlp-tion of the war zone and that much ! of his letter was devoted to outrages perpetrated on French girls and even old women in the territory invaded in the first great drive into Prance In AugusJBl-l. The brother, who was from Salt Lake, had enlisted In the American ambulance corps, but had resolved to go Into the trenches to do his full part to avenge( the crimes against humanity. Then reference was made to Gerard's disclosures of slavery' and brutality, and. the consensus con-sensus of opinion was that, as letters begin to pour back from our boys in France, detailing the horrors inflicted, all America would develop intense feeling which might crystallize into a hatred which years could not eradicate. eradi-cate. We wonder if tho German people generally, who thought so lightly of America's entrance into the war, ever gave this phase of the far-reaching after-effects of the conflict, studious consideration. The world Is turning from Germany with loathing, not because Germany has demonstrated wonderful ability In every branch of warfare, but owing to the overwhelming evidence that the military mind of the Prussians is brutalized brut-alized beyond measure. rm |